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Title
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Max Smith Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
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Description
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Max Smith was born in 1918 and raised on the family farm in Marshall County. He graduated from Chillicothe Business College in Missouri before working as a hog buyer for the Rath Packing Company in Waterloo. In 1941 he was drafted into the U.S. Army where he served in the European and North African theatres and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. After the war he completed his bachelors degree at Iowa State University in 1949 and moved to Grinnell in 1950 where he served as President of the Poweshiek County National Bank from 1966 through 1983. He and his wife, Delores, had two children. Interview conducted as part of American Beliefs and Cultural Values, an American Studies class taught by Hanna Griff at Grinnell College in 1993.
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Date Created
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1993
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PID
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grinnell:26715